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Quotes by Richard Milhous Nixon

Voters quickly forget what a man says.
– Richard Milhous Nixon
Watergate had become the center of the media's universe, and during the remaining year of my presidency the media tried to force everything else to revolve around it.
– Richard Milhous Nixon
We are all in it together. This is a war. We take a few shots and it will be over. We will give them a few shots and it will be over.
– Richard Milhous Nixon
We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another - until we speak quietly enough so that our words can be heard as well as our voices.
– Richard Milhous Nixon
We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.
– Richard Milhous Nixon
We must always remember that America is a great nation today not because of what government did for people but because of what people did for themselves and for one another.
– Richard Milhous Nixon
Well, I screwed it up real good, didn't I?
– Richard Milhous Nixon
What does that candyass think I sent him over there for?
– Richard Milhous Nixon
What starts the process, really, are laughs and slights and snubs when you are a kid. If your anger is deep enough and strong enough, you learn that you can change those attitudes by excellence, personal gut performance.
– Richard Milhous Nixon
When I grow up, I want to be an honest lawyer so things like that can't happen.
– Richard Milhous Nixon
When I retire I'm going to spend my evenings by the fireplace going through those boxes. There are things in there that ought to be burned.
– Richard Milhous Nixon
When the winds blow and the rains fall and the sun shines through the clouds he still resolves as he did then, that nothing so fine ever happened to him or anyone else as falling in love with Thee-my dearest heart.
– Richard Milhous Nixon
You must never be satisfied with losing. You must get angry, terribly angry, about losing. But the mark of the good loser is that he takes his anger out on himself and not his victorious opponents or on his teammates.
– Richard Milhous Nixon
You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the president. I'm innocent. You've got to believe I'm innocent. If you don't, take my job.
– Richard Milhous Nixon
You see these bums, you know, blowing up campuses storming around about this issue.
– Richard Milhous Nixon
You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore, because, gentlemen, this is my last press conference.
– Richard Milhous Nixon
You've got to learn to survive a defeat. That's when you develop character.
– Richard Milhous Nixon
Because of what you have done the heavens have become a part of man's world. And as you talk to us from the Sea of Tranquillity, it inspires us to redouble our efforts to bring peace and Tranquillity to Earth. For one priceless moment, in the whole history of man, all the people on this Earth are truly one. One in their pride in what you have done. One in our prayers that you will return safely to Earth.
– Richard Milhous Nixon
A man is not finished when he's defeated; he's finished when he quits.
– Richard Milhous Nixon
While technically I did not commit a crime, an impeachable offense... these are legalisms, as far as the handling of this matter is concerned; it was so botched up, I made so many bad judgments. The worst ones, mistakes of the heart, rather than the head. But let me say, a man in that top job - he's got to have a heart, but his head must always rule his heart.
– Richard Milhous Nixon
When the president does it, that means it is not illegal.
– Richard Milhous Nixon
The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger - but recognize the opportunity.
– Richard Milhous Nixon
I made my mistakes, but in all my years of public life, I have never profited from public service. I've earned every cent. And in all of my years in public life I have never obstructed justice. And I think, too, that I can say that in my years of public life that I welcome this kind of examination because people have got to know whether or not their President is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook. I've earned everything I've got.
– Richard Milhous Nixon